The Proto-Germanic pluperfect

  • The Germanic perfect presents (Präteritopräsentien) form a past tense by adding the endings of the weak preterit to the stem of the past participle, e.g. Go. wissa ‘knew’. This is a recent formation (cf. Kortlandt 1989). We may therefore ask ourselves if we can reconstruct the earlier formation which was ousted by the weak preterit. We may also try to recover the motivation for the replacement.

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Author:Frederik H. H. KortlandtGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1156540
URL:http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art128e.pdf
Parent Title (German):Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2010/07/07
Year of first Publication:2007
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/07/07
GND Keyword:Indogermanische Sprachen; Plusquamperfekt
Volume:40
Page Number:5
First Page:1
Last Page:5
Note:
Korrigierte Version
Source:http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art128e.pdf ; (in:) Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 40, 1994, S. 1-5
HeBIS-PPN:246707410
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht